Woman Much Missed. Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry, Hardback/***

Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma. It shows how Emma's writings and experiences were fundamental to Hardy's evolution into both a best-selling novelist and into one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century Publisher: Oxford University Press Author(s): Mark (Professor of English and American Literature, Professor of English and American Literature, University College London) Ford Illustration(s): 12 black and white images Number of pages: 272 Publication date: 2023 Dimensions: 144 x 224 x 23 Cover type: Hardback